GAME DEVELOPER & DESIGNER

YUVAL
YAISH

History. Philosophy. Games. I build games that ask the same question I brought to every history classroom: how do you make someone feel a power structure they cannot see? Currently developing two original projects in Godot — one a poem about the Holocaust, one a satirical merchant game set in ancient Mesopotamia.

// PROJECTS
Written in Pencil © Maxim Sheshukov
Cain and Abel GODOT 4
NARRATIVE GAME
WRITTEN IN PENCIL
IN A SEALED
RAILWAY CAR

A playable poem. Based on Dan Pagis's devastatingly incomplete verse, the game presents its lines one at a time — typed onto the screen as if scratched into a boxcar wall. The player advances, but the sentence never completes. An exploration of testimony, silence, and the ergodic labor of witnessing.

PIXEL ART NARRATIVE PHILOSOPHY 1-BIT MEMORY
// ASSETS & CREDITS
Background — edermunizz on itch.io
Font: Silver — Poppy Works on itch.io
Copper and Complaints GODOT 4 · ANDROID
DIALOGUE RPG
COPPER &
COMPLAINTS
Copper and Complaints — gameplay overview

You are Ea-Nasir, history's most complained-about copper merchant. Based on the 3,800-year-old Complaint Tablet — the oldest known customer complaint — this satirical dialogue RPG tasks you with selling substandard metal to ancient Mesopotamia, then talking your way out of every consequence.

DIALOGUE RPG SATIRE HISTORY ANDROID
Yuval Yaish

// ABOUT

I'm a fourth-year student of History and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University — a dual major built on the conviction that every story told about the world is also an argument about power.

Alongside games, I am a teacher. Working with students means confronting the same design problem every day: how do you make someone feel the weight of a structure they did not choose and cannot easily see? Games, I discovered, are built from the same problem.

My academic work connects postcolonial theory and ludology — asking whether the freedom we offer players replicates Western models of the universal subject, or whether games can crack those open. My practice tries to find out.

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY GODOT POSTCOLONIAL THEORY